NCW--Novels Every Writer Should Own

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NOVELS EVERY WRITER SHOULD OWN

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by

F Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner

Reinert Library

Besides being a great read, Gatsby is a tour de force example of handling point-of-view.

Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster

by

Kaye Gibbons

Vintage

Reinert Library

The story of an abused child who survives by wit, clear-thinking, and fierce virtue.

The Handmaid of Desire

The Handmaid of Desire

by

John L'Heureux

Soho

Reinert Library

A wicked send-up of academia, especially literary theoreticians.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by

Gabriel García Márquez

Alfred A. Knopf

Reinert Library

The landmark example of magic realism, epic in every sense.

MORE NOVELS

Waiting for the Barbarians, by JM Coetzee

Viking

Reinert Library

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

Bantam, Doubleday, Dell

Reinert Library

Saving St. Germ, by Carol Muske Dukes

Penguin

Reinert Library

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

New American Library

Reinert Library

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert

Bantam

Reinert Library

The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford

WW Norton

Taking the Wall, by Jonis Agee

Coffeehouse Press

Reinert Library

Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys

WW Norton

Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson

Bantam, Doubleday, Dell

Reinert Library

The Risk Pool, by Richard Russo

Vintage

A Flag for Sunrise, by Robert Stone

Vintage

Reinert Library

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

WW Norton

Reinert Library

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

Harcourt Brace

Reinert Library

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